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This November, Remember New Jersey’s Voter Rolls

Roughly 6,600 noncitizens ended up on New Jersey’s voter rolls. Nearly 400 of them cast ballots in elections.

That isn’t a Republican talking point. It’s the admission New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill shared herself—five days after the Left spent a week insisting that threats to election security are figments of President Donald Trump’s imagination.

In a primetime address, President Trump laid out foreign and domestic threats to the integrity of American elections and argued for the photo-identification protections in the federal SAVE America Act. The political Left and much of the press dismissed him before the night was over: Voter fraud is all but nonexistent, they said, and he offered no evidence. Five days later, New Jersey offered it for him.

Every one of those 6,600 registrations entered the system the same way: through New Jersey’s automatic voter registration program.

For anyone unfamiliar with AVR, it registers people to vote when they interact with a state agency, usually the motor vehicle bureau. In some states, registration is the default, requiring people to affirmatively opt out or mail back a card declining.

Roughly half the states have adopted AVR. Ohio, wisely, has not. Here, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles asks whether you’re registered; if you aren’t, you’re offered a form, and an election official later determines whether you’re actually........

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